Nursing-corset



(No Model.)

I. STROUSE.

NURSING CORSET.

Patented Sept N. PErERs. Pimlomhograpben Wuhin mn. D. C

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ISAAC STBOUSE, OF NEIV IIAVEN, CONNECTICUT.

NURSING-CORSET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 285,704, datedSeptember 25, 1883.

Application filed May 22, 1883. (No niodel.)

T0 aZZ whom it may concern Be it known that I, ISAAC STROUSE, of NewHaven, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, haveinvented a new Improvement in Nursing-Corsets; and I do hereby declarethe following, when taken in connection with accompanying drawings andthe letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exactdescription of the 'sa1ne, and which said drawings constitute part ofthis specifica tion, and represent, in

Figure 1, a front View; Fig. 2, a vertical central section; Fig. 3, afront View, showing the flap turned down to open the breast portion.

This invention relates to an improvement in that class of corsets inwhichthe breast portion is made so as to be opened for convenience innursing, commonly called nursing corsets, the object of the inventionbeing to arrange an opening flap which will be easily and readilyadjusted without the necessity of fastening attachments; and it consistsin a flap hinged below the opening and so as to turn upward to close theopening, the breast portion above the opening constructed to form apocket into which to tuck the upper end of the flap, as more fullyhereinafter described.

A represents the flap, which is of gore shape, narrow at. the bottom andextending upward, and at its lower end is hinged to the body of thecorset, as at a. This may be by any suit able hinging attachment, sothat it may be freely turned up and down in opening and closing.

Across the breast portion, at the top, is a 5 band, B. The flap A ismade in length suflicient to extend up inside the band B to nearly thetop of the corset. The band B is secured at each edge of the opening C,as at b, Fig. 3, leaving the band free between those two points for theintroduction of the upper end of the flap.

At each edge of the opening an extension, (1, is made inward, extendingfrom near the bottom of the opening up behind the band B, and at the topis secured to the band, and this extension may extend across behind-theband, as seen in Fig. 2, and so that the upper end of the flap willstand between the band B on the outside and the cross-piece D on theinside; but this crosspiece at the-top is not necessary, as the band B,with the extensions (1 behind it, forms a sufficient pocket to receiveand retain the upper end of the flap.

A corset constructed with an opening, 0,1'11 the breast-portions, with aband, B, across the opening at the top, combined with the flap A, hingedbelow the. opening and extending up inside the band B, with thecross-piece D in rear of the band and so as to inclose the upper end ofthe flap, substantially as described.

ISAAC STROUSE.

Witnesses:

J 0s. C. EARLE, J. H. SHUMWAY.

